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2026 Easley High School "Spring Fling" Marching Band Fundraiser Donation

  For the last couple years, my wife has been active in the school marching band (her son plays trumpet). She donates baked goods regularly for events, and she asked me beginning in Spring of 2025 if I could consider donating a build for fundraising. Since then, for the Spring and Fall events, I have donated a build to be part of a drawing, and am proud to have helped earn the school a little money for the band programs.    Full transparency, most of my donations are instruments that are purely one-offs, experiments and/or made from components I might not normally put in my regular offerings. Nothing "wrong" with the parts, they're just not what I'd normally use. However, the end results will be just as playable and toneful as my production models, and so far they've been a hit. This cheeky fellow features my favorite style Oliva 135th Anniversary box, and is loaded up with a hardtail toploader Strat-style bridge (just like the majority of other builds, because th...

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